Application

One page essay required, describing your career goals, research interests/experience, the type of neuroscience doctoral program to which you would like to apply, and any other helpful information for the admissions committee.

Transcripts (Unofficial from home school & Official from transfer school)

2 letters of recommendation (sent by recommenders directly to program administrator)

Participating Universities

Alejandra Patno

School:

New York University

Graduation Status:

Current

Description:

My name is Alejandra Patino, I am a junior neural science major at New York University. I hope to pursue either an MD/PhD or a PhD after finishing my undergraduate years. My main interests are memory and neurodegenerative diseases. This summer I worked in Dr. Frank Tong’s lab at Vanderbilt University. We were researching the capacity and precision of visual working memory for orientation. This year I hope to get into more of the biological basis of memory. My goal is to understand how memories are formed and maintained, and what kind of things can impact this process, so that in the future I can study the memory loss of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. I hope to be able to contribute to therapies to cure or ameliorate the effects of these kinds of diseases.